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TEL AVIV, Israel -- U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter was warmly welcomed by his Israeli counterpart Monday on the first Cabinet-level U.S. visit to the Jewish state since the Iran nuclear deal was announced.The Pentagon chief met at Israel s defense headquarters with Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon adidas originals ultraboost and on Tuesday is to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has strongly criticized the Iran deal.Yaalon thanked Carter for his contributions to Israeli security and said Israel appreciates its friendship with the U.S.The Israeli defense forces held a standard welco adidas campus damen ming ceremony for Carter and he then went into a closed meeting with Yaalon.On his flight to Tel Aviv, Carter said he has no expectation of persuading Israeli leaders to drop their opposition to the Iran nuclear deal. But he said he ll emphasize that the accord imposes no l adidas campus 80s imits on what Washington can do to ensure the security of Israel and U.S. Arab allies. Israel is the bedrock of American strategy in the Middle East. Yes, the region is complicated and troubled; but we know what our interests are and principal among them for the United States is our friendship and alliance with Israel, Carter told reporters.CBS Radio News correspondent Robert Berger said Carter arrived in Israel fully aware that the Iran deal was going to be a hard sell. Netanyahu: Nuclear agreement is Iranrsquo dream dea Gbso Cholera Strikes Basra, Epidemic Feared
The earlier drawdown of American troops in Afghanistan from a combat role to one of training and assisting the Afghan military gives the Taliban what it s sought for a long time, Lara Logan said on CBS This Morning Thursday.Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday that U.S. forces would end its combat involvement in Afghanistan in the middle of 2013, more than a year earlier than planned. From the Taliban s point of view, this is exactly what they ve been asking for, Logan told Erica Hill and Charlie Rose. Their pre-condition to sitting down to negotiate with the U.S. was always a withdrawal of foreign forces, all foreign forces, so, um, in their eyes they have exactly what they ve always wanted, and it s hard to see what the U.S. really brings to the negotiating table if their enemy already knows that they re on their way out. Special Section: Afghanistan, Ten Years LaterU.S. combat role in Afghanistan to end in 13U.S. report: Taliban s strength, resolve intactFrom the White House, Norah O Donnell said she s been told that the official announcement of the t stanley canada ransition will likely be made in May during a NATO summit in Chicago. What the key question is after that transition ... will stanley cups that mean that this administration then announces a further drawdown of troops, said O Donnell. We ve got 90,000 troops in Afghanistan. There s going to be about 20,000 less by the fall. Will then the president announce tha stanley cup website t he is pulling even more forces back from Afghanistan A
TEL AVIV, Israel -- U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter was warmly welcomed by his Israeli counterpart Monday on the first Cabinet-level U.S. visit to the Jewish state since the Iran nuclear deal was announced.The Pentagon chief met at Israel s defense headquarters with Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon adidas originals ultraboost and on Tuesday is to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has strongly criticized the Iran deal.Yaalon thanked Carter for his contributions to Israeli security and said Israel appreciates its friendship with the U.S.The Israeli defense forces held a standard welco adidas campus damen ming ceremony for Carter and he then went into a closed meeting with Yaalon.On his flight to Tel Aviv, Carter said he has no expectation of persuading Israeli leaders to drop their opposition to the Iran nuclear deal. But he said he ll emphasize that the accord imposes no l adidas campus 80s imits on what Washington can do to ensure the security of Israel and U.S. Arab allies. Israel is the bedrock of American strategy in the Middle East. Yes, the region is complicated and troubled; but we know what our interests are and principal among them for the United States is our friendship and alliance with Israel, Carter told reporters.CBS Radio News correspondent Robert Berger said Carter arrived in Israel fully aware that the Iran deal was going to be a hard sell. Netanyahu: Nuclear agreement is Iranrsquo dream dea Gbso Cholera Strikes Basra, Epidemic Feared
The earlier drawdown of American troops in Afghanistan from a combat role to one of training and assisting the Afghan military gives the Taliban what it s sought for a long time, Lara Logan said on CBS This Morning Thursday.Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday that U.S. forces would end its combat involvement in Afghanistan in the middle of 2013, more than a year earlier than planned. From the Taliban s point of view, this is exactly what they ve been asking for, Logan told Erica Hill and Charlie Rose. Their pre-condition to sitting down to negotiate with the U.S. was always a withdrawal of foreign forces, all foreign forces, so, um, in their eyes they have exactly what they ve always wanted, and it s hard to see what the U.S. really brings to the negotiating table if their enemy already knows that they re on their way out. Special Section: Afghanistan, Ten Years LaterU.S. combat role in Afghanistan to end in 13U.S. report: Taliban s strength, resolve intactFrom the White House, Norah O Donnell said she s been told that the official announcement of the t stanley canada ransition will likely be made in May during a NATO summit in Chicago. What the key question is after that transition ... will stanley cups that mean that this administration then announces a further drawdown of troops, said O Donnell. We ve got 90,000 troops in Afghanistan. There s going to be about 20,000 less by the fall. Will then the president announce tha stanley cup website t he is pulling even more forces back from Afghanistan A
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